I just dont get it i have watched them in training a number of times and you see quick one touch passing going to the player intended in both opposed and unopposed sessions. No pissing around no backwards forwards sideways rubbish.
Come game day its like they just meet in the changing rooms somedays slow labored no one prepared to take someone on.
You can blame Chief all you want for tactics, selections, and substitutions. But for me at some stage the players have to take responsibility for some of the shark we are seeing. We get slow boring shark most of a game then lately the last 10 minutes they decide to up the pace and play. If playing AKH means we are going to get this play out from the back crap would rather he stays on the bench.
Unless they get some confidence and give us some honest effort then that FKN wooden spoon will be ours again. I for one am over that being the FKN only thing we have one.
Come game day its like they just meet in the changing rooms somedays slow labored no one prepared to take someone on.
You can blame Chief all you want for tactics, selections, and substitutions. But for me at some stage the players have to take responsibility for some of the shark we are seeing. We get slow boring shark most of a game then lately the last 10 minutes they decide to up the pace and play. If playing AKH means we are going to get this play out from the back crap would rather he stays on the bench.
Unless they get some confidence and give us some honest effort then that FKN wooden spoon will be ours again. I for one am over that being the FKN only thing we have one.
I agree that we have great performances in training (as per comments from others), but once you add opposition into the mix, it gets harder!
Jokes aside, I totally get it that our recent recruitment went into midfield (Singh and Sander) as this is where we were lacking transitional trength. But I am concerned that apart from Hughes all our CB options since Surman and Wootton seem to be ponderous and hesitant. Of course James and Tuiloma have shown some good flashes of performance, but their overall "air" is one of lack of confidence. And we do not seem able to find anyone of Cacace or Sutton quality (Armiento is excellent but he is not a defender).
So despite our relatively good scoring stats, we seem to be leaking goals (except the McCarron clean sheet). And we cannot take that kind of performance into the finals, if we get there.